To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

I wanted her love she wanted mine. In the quest of expecting anddisappointing.The almost perfect relationship died.

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.

Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

Well, I should like a plan that doesn’t result in the death of my heir. (Eli) Would a good maiming be considered over-the-top? (Varyk)

I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.